42] Al-Mutanabbi
Street Starts Here Exhibition - through Mar. 30
43]
Meet the candidates for
mayor – Feb. 18
44]
Peace vigil at White House – Feb. 19
45]
WIB peace vigil –
Feb. 19
46]
“Where to Invade
Next” -- Feb. 19 – 25 [at least]
47] Black Lives Matter – Feb. 19
48]
HIPS Happy Hour –
Feb. 19
49] Social
Justice Mixer – Feb. 19
50] Ballroom
Dancing – Feb. 19
51]
Youth Summit – Feb.
19
52] Peace Education training – Feb. 19
53]
Sign up with Washington
Peace Center
54]
Donate books, videos, DVDs
and records
55]
Do you need any book
shelves?
56]
Join the Global Zero
campaign
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– Al-Mutanabbi
Street Starts Here Exhibition is a project that began as a call from Beau
Beausoleil in 2007 for writers which quickly moved on to incorporate artists,
artist books and now includes printmakers all who are responding to bear
witness to a tragic loss of a center of literacy and humanity in Iraq. One
of the purposes of this project is to let those in the Iraqi Arts Community
know that we will not let them endure the destruction of Iraqi culture in
silence, that we have a collective voice and we will use it. This was a street
of booksellers, printers, and readers. This was a street where people still
felt "safe" among all the words and books. How can we not see the
commonality between al- Mutanabbi Street and any street in the world that holds
a bookshop or cultural institution? This is the starting point: where language,
thought, and reality reside; where memory, ideas, and even dreams wait
patiently in their black ink.
A
diverse coalition of DC-area universities and arts and literary organizations
will present Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016, a book arts and
cultural festival through Sat., Mar. 5 throughout the Washington, D.C., area.
Major exhibitions, programs, and events will commemorate the 2007 bombing of
Baghdad’s historic bookselling street, celebrate the free exchange of ideas and
knowledge, and stand in solidarity with the people of Iraq. Exhibitions of
artwork created in response to the bombing will be featured at multiple venues,
including the George Mason University School of Art Gallery, Atrium, Fenwick
Library and the Workhouse Art Center, Gelman Library and the Corcoran School of
Art and Design at The George Washington University, the Brentwood Arts
Exchange, Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, McLean Project for the Arts, Northern
Virginia Community College, Olly Olly Gallery, and the Smithsonian American
Art/Portrait Gallery Library.
The
exhibitions that are featured at the School of Art Gallery, the Fenwick
Library, the Mason Atrium Gallery, and the Workhouse Art Center (plus
partners) include three components: Letterpress Printed Broadsides; Artist
Books; and Absence and Presence (a call to printmakers).
Additionally, each gallery provides new interpretive documentary
materials, hands-on workshops, and panels and conversations that will be
built around the exhibitions. For a complete list of sites and dates and times
go to http://www.amsshdc2016.org/contact-us.html.
This is
a list of some of the sites. You can see the exhibit, for example, at the
Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, 1632 U St., WDC, through Wed., Mar.
30. It is entitled “Night and the Desert Know Me,” and the curators are
Shanti Norris and Spencer Dormitzer. The exhibit at the Brentwood Arts
Exchange, 3901 Rhode Island Ave., Brentwood, MD 20722, runs through Sat., Mar.
12 -- “Selections from Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here.” The curator of the
exhibit is Phil Davis. Also see the exhibit at the Tyler Gallery,
Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, 500 17th St. NW, WDC, through Sun.,
Mar. 20--“Al-Mutanabbi Street in Books, Prints & Poetry.” Enjoy a reception
on Fri., Mar. 4 from 1 to 2:30 PM. Also you can see this exhibit at the
Smithsonian American Art/Portrait Gallery, 750 9th St. NW, Room 2100, WDC
20001-4505 through Wed., Mar. 30 -- “Come Together: American Artists Respond to
Al-Mutanabbi Street.” The curator is Anne Evenhaugen.
43]
– Maryland
League of Conservation Voters invites you to LIVABLE BALTIMORE - Vision for a
Healthy Environment on Thurs., Feb. 18 from 6 to 7:30 PM at Mt Lebanon Baptist
Church, 2812 Reisterstown Rd., Baltimore 21215. This Mayoral Candidates’ Forum
will be moderated by Tim Wheeler, Managing Editor, The Bay Journal, and
former Baltimore Sun Environmental Reporter. Doors will open at 5:30 PM for
light refreshment. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livable-baltimore-mayoral-candidates-forum-tickets-21046427431.
44]
– On Fri., Feb.
12 from noon to 1 PM, join the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker in a vigil urging
the powers that be to abolish war and torture, to disarm all weapons, to end
indefinite detention, to close Guantanamo, to establish justice for all and
help create the Beloved Community! This vigil will take place at the White
House, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. NW. Contract Art @ artlaffin@hotmail.com or at
202-360-6416.
45]
– On Fri., Feb.
19 from noon to 1 PM, join Women in Black peace vigil. This vigil will take
place at the corner of Light and Pratt Sts. Stay for as long as you can.
Wear black. Dress for who knows what kind of weather. Bring your own poster or
help with the "NO WAR IN MY NAME" banner. When there are others
to stand with, you don't need to carry the burden alone. Do this to be in
solidarity with others....when everything around us says Be afraid of the
stranger.
46]
–Note that
Michael Moore is ill, and unable to promote his latest film “Where to Invade
Next.” So we must promote it. It opens at the Charles Theatre, 1711
N. Charles St., Baltimore, on Fri., Feb. 19, and the show times are as follows:
1:40 PM, 4:10 PM, 7:00 PM, 9:25 PM. It will at least stay
at the Charles until Thurs., Feb. 25. Of course, the run can be extended
if the crowds turn out. Call 410-727-FILM or email charlestheatre@yahoo.com.
47]
–There is
usually a silent peace vigil on Fridays, from 5 to 6 PM, sponsored by Homewood
Friends and Stony Run Meetings, outside the Homewood Friends Meetinghouse, 3107
N. Charles St. The next scheduled vigil is on Feb. 19. Black Lives
Matter.
48]
– Come
to Lyman's Tavern, 3720 14th St. NW, WDC 20011, on Fri., Feb. 19 from 6 to 8
PM to celebrate HIPS candy drive. HIPS is hosting a happy hour! Two bags of
candy or a ten dollar donation at the door will be your ticket to discounted
drinks, HIPS trivia, and best of all, the beautiful people that make up the
HIPS community! Go to https://www.facebook.com/events/1569305406723309/.
HIPS promotes the health, rights, and dignity of individuals
and communities impacted by sexual exchange and/or drug use due to choice,
coercion, or circumstance. HIPS provides compassionate harm reduction services,
advocacy, and community engagement that is respectful, non-judgmental, and
affirms and honors individual power and agency.
49]
-- On Fri., Feb.
19 at 6:30 PM come to Red Emma's Bookstore Coffeehouse, 30 W. North Ave.,
Baltimore 21201, attend a Come Together Social Justice Mixer hosted by Qiara
Butler. This is a monthly social justice networking event that will allow for
the community building that so many of us look to achieve. Mix, mingle, and
network with other local activists and nation builders. Each month a different
organization, representing a variety of areas of social justice, will come and
present who they are, what they do, and how you can get involved. A donation will
be taken each month for that organization to show the strength we have with our
own resources. Come and finally meet your social media community face to face!
Bring cards, flyers, a friend, and a smile! Call 443-602-7585. Go to http://www.redemmas.org.
50]
– There is
an opportunity to participate in ballroom dancing, usually every Friday of the
month, in the JHU ROTC Bldg. at 8 PM. Turn south on San Martin Dr.
from the intersection of Univ. Parkway and 39th St. Drive on campus by
taking the third left turn. The next dance will be Feb. 19. Call Dave
Greene at 410-599-3725.
51]
– As part of
Black History Month event series, One Common Unity has joined up with the
Prince George's County Circuit Court to host a Teen Domestic Violence:
Youth Summit at Charles H. Flowers High School, 1001 Ardwick Ardmore Rd. ,
Springdale, MD, on Sat., Feb. 20 from 9 AM to 2:30 PM. This event
consists of two main portions: "Youth Speak" and "Cycles of
Violence." “Youth Speak!” is a performance by the youth of One Common
Unity who will express their thoughts and feelings about how domestic violence
has touched their lives through a spoken word performance. For Anger
Management: Overcoming Cycles Of Violence, students will view and discuss
selected portions of the award-winning documentary “Fly By Light,” in which
youth confront the entrenched abuse, violence and neglect cycles of their past
and explore the chaotic, confusing, and emotional journeys to rewrite their
futures. Go to http://www.eventbrite.com/e/teen-domestic-violence-youth-summit-tickets-21022130759?aff=erelorgpanelorg.
52]
– You are
invited to join this Peace Education training offered by Little Friends for
Peace. Peace Education is an experience of encouragement and mutual
achievement. It builds trust, pride, compassion, and self-confidence to disarm
one another when conflict arises. It reverses violence that arises out of
isolation, fear, and injustice, and will take place at Perry School, 128 M St.
NW, 2nd Floor near Little Friends for Peace office, WDC, on Sat., Feb. 20 from
10 AM to 2:30 PM. This training is great for young adults, teachers,
parents, counselors, coaches, youth, and many others. Healthy and filling
snacks will be provided. This training is being offered by the DC Peace Team
which is an organization committed to cultivating peacemakers through regular
peacemaker skill training, peace education, inspiring speakers, restorative
justice, and unarmed civilian peacekeeping. See www.dcpeaceteam.com. Contact Eli McCarthy at eli_trinity@hotmail.com or 510-717-8867.
Go to https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1jgMy-LjNX4dBlQZcXgW0kOo1GndKqvrtoGwzIHHWrWE/viewform.
53]
--
The Washington Peace
Center has a progressive calendar & activist alert! Consider signing up to
receive its weekly email: info@washingtonpeacecenter.org.
54]
-- If you would
like to get rid of books, videos, DVDs or records, contact Max at 410-366-1637
or mobuszewski at verizon.net.
55]
-- Can you use
any book shelves? Contact Max at 410-366-1637 or mobuszewski at verizon.net.
56]
-- Join an
extraordinary global campaign for the elimination of nuclear weapons: http://www.globalzero.org/sign-declaration.
A growing group of leaders around the world is calling for the elimination of
nuclear weapons and a majority of the global public agrees. This is an
historic window of opportunity. With momentum already building in favor
of Zero, a major show of support from people around the world could tip the
balance. When it comes to nuclear weapons, one is one too many.
Donations
can be sent to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD
21218. Ph: 410-366-1637; Email: mobuszewski [at] verizon.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/.
“One is
called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
It may or may not be possible to turn the US around through nonviolent
revolution. But one thing favors such an attempt: the total inability of violence
to change anything for the better" - Daniel Berrigan
Donations can be sent
to the Baltimore Nonviolence Center, 325 E. 25th St., Baltimore, MD
21218. Ph: 410-323-1607; Email: mobuszewski [at] verizon.net. Go to http://baltimorenonviolencecenter.blogspot.com/
"The master class
has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
The master class has had all to gain and nothing to lose, while the subject
class has had nothing to gain and everything to lose--especially their lives."
Eugene Victor Debs
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